Background
Benziger, August was born on January 2, 1867 in Einsiedeln, Switzerland. Son of Adelrich and Marie (Koch) Benziger.
Benziger, August was born on January 2, 1867 in Einsiedeln, Switzerland. Son of Adelrich and Marie (Koch) Benziger.
Student Downside College England, in Brussels, Geneva, Munich. Art studies Royal Academy, Vienna, Academie Julian and École des Beaux Arts, Paris.
Portrait painter, since 1891. Has painted portraits of Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt (History Society, Chicago) and Taft, of Popes Leo XIII, Benedict XV, and Pius XI, President Diaz, Mexico, Sir Stuart Knill, lord mayor London, Leon Bourgeois, prime minister of France, Presidents Hauser, Forrer, Deucher and Haab, of Switzerland, J. Pierpont Morgan, Robert South. Brookings (Washington University, Saint Louis), Charles F. Brooker, William Bixby, Charles M. Schwab, Cardinals Gibbons, Farley, and O’Connell and Cardinal Bonzano, Apostolic Delegate, Sir Oliver Lodge, Senator Shelby M. Cullom (United States Capitol), et cetera, United States and abroad. Commander de l’Ordre du Christ.
Officier de l’Ordre Saint Jacques.
Built Grand Hotel and Palace, Brunnen, Switzerland, 1904. Offered it to the United States Government during World War I.
Clubs: Union Artistique (Paris).
Married Gertrude Lytton, July 5, 1898. Children: Marie Gertrude Rosa, Helene Henriette (Mistress Joseph Willimann), Marguerite Marie (Mother Marguerite Benziger).